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Looking back: My year at the Santa Cruz Sentinel

For those of you unfamiliar with my personal and professional timeline, I worked at the Santa Cruz Sentinel from October 2006 through the end of September 2007, first in a position accurately titled Webmaster, and later as the Online Editor, … Continue reading

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You have 17 nights left to Challenge yourself.

I remember where I was the first time I read about the Knight News Challenge and was inspired enough to blog about it. A tire shop.  This one: (Photo yanked from Google Maps Street View.) Seriously, it was late in … Continue reading

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Map thyself

{Carnival! There’s a journalism blog carnival under way, hosted — if you can wrap your head around that concept — by the folks at Scribblesheet, some sort of collaborative writing tool I haven’t had a chance to look at yet. … Continue reading

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Seven notes, six links

Hypothesis: Dooce is (still) one of the best things on the Interweb. Plea: Jay Rosen has the beatblogging with a social network thing worked up pretty clearly at this point, but if the project doesn’t leave behind tools (a WordPress … Continue reading

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Halloween debriefing, baby-friendly in 2007

Downtown Santa Cruz yesterday in daylight hours, among throngs of candy-seeking children and stroller-pushing parents (notably, myself, the wife, and our neighbors). I’m the one in the funny hat. Last year, this costume was quite a bit less baby-friendly.

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